Events

For one weekend only, Summerfield Zoo in Belvidere is bringing back their always popular Unicorn Rides.

Haunted Rockford will be hosting a 'Ghostly Encounters' tour of the Ethnic Heritage Museum on August 28, 2021.

Pack the family in the car and drive an hour to Von Bergen's Country Market in Hebron, IL to spend a wonderful summer day amidst sunflowers.

Rockford's Discovery Center Museum invites your family to enjoy some Olympic-size fun at their 'Olympics Challenge'.

The perfect way to enjoy a summer night is by taking a moonlit train ride at the Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad in Trego, WI.

The riverboat dinner cruises everyone loves are making a comeback at Maxson Restaurant & Riverboat in Oregon, Illinois.

If you like music and a lot of it, this festival is the one thing you shouldn't go without this summer.

If someone in your life is train obsessed, take them to the Illinois Railway Museum this holiday weekend so they can drive a real trolley down the tracks.

PLAN ACCORDINGLY: Here's your family's complete guide to when and where fireworks will be happening in the Rockford area this weekend.

Feast on fried food and fun at these fairs and festivals happening near Rockford this summer!